Over those 10 years, some anthropologists began to include “The Wire” in their courses, presumably because they found it ethnographically interesting. And it is, but not because it offers an empirical “window” onto the lives of Baltimore’s urban poor. Instead, “The Wire” is interesting because it presents the complexities of white, middle-class perspectives on race and social clas … [T]he series remains trapped in the puzzle-box of the racialized other, and the failure of the series to indict the neo-liberal … points to the inabilities of US intellectuals to conceptualize both race- and class inequality. Bouncing between reformer, radical and reactionary, ‘The Wire’ is probably the best portrait we have today of U.S. urban policy. (énfasis añadido)